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George Santos is running for Congress
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Semafor is a really weird new site by the Buzzfeed guy who wants to "reinvent the news" by using AI curation and short articles with click bait headlines...
They've only been around a year or two. But I've noticed them getting posted a lot of Lemmy recently so I looked into them. It's almost always headlines like this where it's really hard not to click
They also have a "good relationship" with China.
They dont seem to be doing anything shitty right now.
But I feel it's like how internet disrupters like Uber provide great service at a loss till people are used to them.
Once they get views, it's all structured for "the algorithm" to push people towards certain views. If it's slow enough and starts out unbiased. People wouldn't even notice. Especially if the AI curating part is on a user by user basis.
It did seem like an odd format when I read it and was strangely neutral given the subject. I don't think I have read a single article about that dude where the author didn't take some hard jabs at when he discovered cold fusion.
It gets good reviews on the sites I use to check for credibility and bias (MBFC, NewsGuard, Ad Fontes). Hopefully it can maintain this, but as it is new, will have to keep a more frequent eye on it.
That's kind of my point.
If it came out with propaganda everyone would write them off immediately.
So "burn money" which in this case is no return in investment. Because if that's whats going on, they're there for propaganda, and not accomplishing it.
Right now the primary goal would be getting people to use and accept them.
Then the "AI curation" they brag about kicks in, and slowly but surely caters what someone reads to move them in the wanted direction.
It's not far fetched to think one day two people might get the same story written two different ways, with two different sets of pictures/videos.
I dunno man, everything's going to shit, when billionaires start talking about reinventing the news, being cynical feels like being reasonable.
Journalism especially has went from people trying to report the new, to people trying to make as much money as possible, to people with more money then they can spend trying to change minds to control votes and laws.
And it's changed so fast, lots of voters still haven't noticed.